-Despite the lack of what you’d call a ‘money fight’ (fucking YAWN) this looked like an absolutely tremendous card on paper, with a top-level title fight and all four of the other matches having the ability to affect the upper echelon of numerous divisions. Clearly one of the best cards...

-This was the third straight season of TUF that I hadn’t really paid attention to, for a number of reasons really. Firstly I just can’t enjoy TUF any more – it’s become this stale mix of clichés and repetition; secondly I didn’t think the UFC needed another division introducing just...

-The UFC’s debut in mainland China was hardly a stacked card – in fact, it was probably one of the worst UFC cards of all time on paper, as no offense, Zak Ottow does not belong anywhere near a UFC main card let alone a co-main event in 2017! At least Gastelum vs. Bisping sounded like a...

-The UFC’s latest return to Australia was a little controversial due to some issues with the main event, but we’ll get there in a bit. It wasn’t the strongest card ever either, mainly relying on local talent, but hey, it’s to be expected in this era I guess.
UFC Fight Night...

-For a Fight Night card this one had a TON of big name fighters, although admittedly most of them (Guida, Lauzon, Marquardt, Sanchez, Brown, Arlovski) were way past their prime. Still, I was never going to complain about a card like this even as a throwaway one!
UFC Fight Night...

-Despite some mixed feelings around the main event – more on that later – the UFC’s return to Madison Square Garden was still probably the biggest show of 2017, with three title fights and the return of probably the best fighter in MMA history in Georges St-Pierre. Not as big as 2016’s...

-The latest in the UFC’s series of excursions to Brazil, this one also had a “young vs. old” feel at the top of the card with Demian Maia vs. Colby Covington and the returning Lyoto Machida vs. Derek Brunson. Pretty good stuff top to bottom actually.
UFC Fight Night 119
10/28/17
Sao...

-This show was getting pretty much zero hype, but to be fair that was to be expected given it was a Euro card with mainly local Polish fighters, even if the main event was pretty cool – Scouse prospect Darren Till stepping up to fight Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone. Fuckin’ A.
UFC Fight Night...

-Blame Conor McGregor and his excursion to fight Floyd Mayweather for this show, as realistically, Tony Ferguson should’ve been fighting him for the full Lightweight title, but you know, money fights and all of that bullshit. So we ended up with ANOTHER Interim title with Ferguson fighting...

-You weren’t about to find a weirder main event than this one – initially it was supposed to be a rematch between Ovince St. Preux and Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua, but when Shogun got injured on late notice, the replacement the UFC tabbed was….Yushin Okami, who’d most recently been...

-The first UFC show to take place in Pittsburgh since the Cowboy vs. Cowboy show in 2016, this was Luke Rockhold’s big return following his knockout loss at the hands of Michael Bisping. Obviously David Branch wasn’t the biggest name for his return fight, but he was on a huge win streak at...

-This was another underwhelming PPV on paper as it lost its co-main event (Demetrious Johnson vs. Ray Borg) just before the weigh-ins, and the other main event of Amanda Nunes vs. Valentina Shevchenko was hardly a massive deal even if it was a legit #1 vs. #2 fight. A couple of intriguing main...

-This was probably the UFC card with the least fanfare in years, as it was the week following the massive Mayweather/McGregor fight and was basically a throwaway European card, although the Struve/Volkov main event sounded pretty good. The rest was a bit meh though meaning the apathy was...

-This was the UFC’s first trip to Mexico since November 2016’s Dos Anjos/Ferguson show and while this card wasn’t as good, it did have a super-intriguing main event – with local flavour! – as Brandon Moreno and Sergio Pettis were due to clash.
UFC Fight Night 114
08/05/17
Mexico...

-This was being billed as the biggest show of 2017 so far, and it was definitely stacked that way – not only did we have the long-awaited Cormier/Jones rematch, but another TWO title fights as well as Lawler vs. Cowboy! It doesn’t get better than that, really.
UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones...